Thinking generations

On Generations

The well known operator ordering ambiguity could motivate the existence of generations. This possibility is explored by exploiting the relationship between ordering and discretization rules. 1 Wilson fermion as analogy Non Commutative Geometry is not the only area knowing how to get mass terms from nowhere. Lattice theorists learnt time ago a nice trick from Wilson. Consider the forward and bac...

Three Generations

as my father and grandfather were also members of our great profession I thought I would try and look at life as it was since 1846 when my grandfather obtained his qualificationi of L.R.C.S. in Edinibuirgh, inci(denltally he was Presi(lent of this Society in 187576. During that early period what great names were brought before the students. Moses, the first great doctor in Egypt, laid down laws...

Dimensions for Thinking About Thinking

We start by making a distinction between mind and cognition, and by positing that cognition is an aspect of mind. We propose as a working hypothesis a Separability Hypothesis which posits that we can factor off an architecture for cognition from a more general architecture for mind, thus avoiding a number of philosophical objections that have been raised about the "Strong AI" hypothesis. We the...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Goods-thinking vs. tree-thinking

While it has become increasingly clear that the Tree of Life hypothesis has limitations in its ability to describe the evolution of all evolving entities on the planet, there has been a marked reluctance to move away from the tree-based language. Ironically, while modifying the idea of the Tree of Life to the extent that it is only very distantly related to its original descriptions, there has ...